Despite a growing population, this southern African country is self-sufficient in food and even able to spare some to help impoverished neighbors teetering on the edge of famine.

For a time, it seemed that Papua New Guinea would lose out to another impoverished neighbor, East Timor.

They establish threadbare small businesses selling fruit or cobbling shoes for their equally impoverished neighbors.

The public in Seoul, seemingly inured after half a century of threats from their impoverished neighbor to the north, remained calm today.

Northerners still say southern people - and they mean Guangdong, rather than its impoverished neighbor, Guangxi - are shrewd, wily and untrustworthy.

The flow of capital actually reversed direction in the last decade, with rich countries reabsorbing $20 billion to $40 billion in resources each year from their impoverished neighbors.

Raber had no steady employment and depended mainly on the charity of his equally impoverished neighbors.

They want the township councils replaced by unified administrations under which affluent white towns would share tax revenue with their impoverished black neighbors.

China increasingly considers its impoverished neighbor as a liability, an economic failure that will collapse one day, flooding northern China with millions of refugees.

He has forcefully ruled out deadlines for compliance or economic sanctions to force his country's impoverished Communist neighbor to respect its international engagements.